| Back | Elinor was soon called to the card-table by the conclusion of the first rubber, and the confidential discourse of the two ladies was therefore at an end, to which both of them submitted without any reluctance, for nothing had been said on either side to make them dislike each other less than they had done before; and Elinor sat down to the card table with the melancholy persuasion that Edward was not only without affection for the person who was to be his wife; but that he had not even the chance of being tolerably happy in marriage, which sincere affection on HER side would have given, for self-interest alone could induce a woman to keep a man to an engagement, of which she seemed so thoroughly aware that he was weary. |
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| Front | No transcurrió mucho tiempo antes de que terminara la primera ronda de naipes y llamaran a Elinor a la mesa, lo que puso fin a la conversación privada de las dos damas, algo a que ni una ni otra opuso gran resistencia, porque nada se había dicho en esa ocasión que les hiciera sentir un desagrado por la otra menor al que habían sentido antes. Elinor se sentó a la mesa con el -triste convencimiento de que Edward no sólo no quena a la persona que iba a ser su esposa, sino que no tenía la menor oportunidad de alcanzar ni siquiera una aceptable felicidad en el matrimonio, algo que podría haber tenido si ella, su prometida, lo hubiera amado con sinceridad, pues tan sólo el propio interés podía inducir a que una mujer atara a un hombre a un compromiso que claramente lo agobiaba. |
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